We have dipped into the purple....

@celticeagle (189957)
Boise, Idaho
October 16, 2015 6:40pm CST
air category today here in the town where I live. We have a fire near town and a couple of storms that are keeping the smoke in the valley. We were in red for several days and it has been red but went to the purple. We are hoping for rain this weekend to wash all of this out of the valley. Schools and such are moving schedules for games and exercise indoors. Firefighters had to do a back burn and that pushed a lot of smoke up and in our direction. Over 5400 acres has been consumed so far. Fire has been going on about a week now. I have a headache from it and I am indoors. I can only imagine how these poor bicycle riders that do deliveries for a local sandwich shop are doing that they are showing on the news. They are wearing face masks.
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Judy Story
@jstory07 (148771)
• Roseburg, Oregon
17 Oct 15
i hope the fire and smoke will be gone soon.
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (189957)
• Boise, Idaho
17 Oct 15
How we get some rain or wind or both. LOL
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Rosekitty
@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
17 Oct 15
wow..we have all these major wildfires which have destroyed 41 homes here too and hoping for major rain like you.. Hope your rain comes soon for you!
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Heather Echola
@GardenGerty (169568)
• United States
18 Oct 15
Hopefully your community will get the rain it needs. I know that there are a lot of places that certainly need rain.I do not know how anyone stands it the way the smoke is.
Yup.Han
@YupHan (67)
• Chengdu, China
19 Oct 15
Sorry for that ,hope for the rain ,and take care of yourself !
Marlina
@marlina (154103)
• Canada
17 Oct 15
|This is so horrible, hope it is raining soon.
Gudheart
@gudheart (12659)
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17 Oct 15
That is awful. Hope it subsides.
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besweet
@besweet (9831)
• Ireland
17 Oct 15
I am hoping it will rain soon. There is nothing else you can do to clean the air. Everyone stays inside when there are large fires in my country, especially people with breathing problems.
Anne Marie Guyer
@LeaPea2417 (40058)
• Toccoa, Georgia
17 Oct 15
I hope all that stops soon and everything gets back to normal for everyone.
Sharon
@simone10 (54180)
• Louisville, Kentucky
17 Oct 15
When we lived in Las Vegas, we would have so much smoke that came from California. It really can be a health hazard for those with breathing problems. I hope you do get some rain soon and it helps to put out the fires.
Ann LeFlore
@poehere (15123)
• French Polynesia
17 Oct 15
Is this because of no rain in the US and all of the dry conditions? Here I don't have to experience this at all. We have plenty of rain and are thankful we have no fires. A few times we did have some fires up in the mountains and we watched them burn. We really don't have much in the line of fire fighters or handing these type of fires. I know on one visit to the US I landed in LA and it was grey and ugly and I had a bad headache from this. I am thankful to live here where the air and water are so clean.